Airbus has been slowly bringing production of the A380 to a close. Today, things got one step closer as the manufacturer’s last A380 began its engine run and taxi tests, the last time this will ever happen for the Giant of the Skies.       While the Airbus A380 will likely remain in the skies for many years to come, the sad reality is that, unfortunately, the type is falling out of favor. While some carriers, such as Singapore Airlines, have stuck by their commitment to the kind, others, such as Lufthansa, show considerably less commitment to the giant.     ..read more

Italian investigators have determined that an improper distribution of passengers on board an Alitalia Airbus A320 resulted in the aircraft’s suffering a tail-strike during an aborted take-off at Milan Malpensa. The twinjet (EI-DTB), bound for Rome Fiumicino on 17 August 2017, had started to accelerate along runway 35R when, at just 42kt, it suddenly pitched up, causing its aft fuselage underside to scrape the ground surface.     Its crew aborted the take-off and returned to the parking apron. Italian investigation authority ANSV says the aircraft was damaged by abrasion along a 1.8m ..read more

A Nauru Airlines Boeing 737-300 made a dramatic landing with fire shooting out of an engine at Brisbane International Airport.       The aircraft, with registration VH-PNI, was performing flight ON1 from Nauru International Airport to Brisbane International Airport. Witnesses reported hearing a series of loud bangs.           However, the airlines’ CEO Geoff Bowmaker said that the plane wasn’t on fire at any point and there was no safety risk.     “At approximately 7.30 pm, flight ON1 from Nauru experienced a compressor stall in one engine wh ..read more

An Antonov An-26 flown by Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee crashed on the evening of March 13th upon landing at Almaty Airport. The crash claimed the lives of four of the six people onboard. The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.         Kazakh investigators work at the site of the crash of the two-engine turboprop Antonov An-26 at the Almaty Airport. Photo: Getty Images Four killed, two survive On Saturday, March 13th, at approximately 17:20 local time, an Antonov An-26 crashed upon landing. The aircraft was used by Kazakh border gu ..read more

An ex-Lufthansa Boeing 707 destined for the scrap heap has scored a reprieve, according to the group trying to save it. The aircraft was due to be removed from the airport at the end of March. However, this date has been canceled to allow an effort to try and save the aircraft.               Many historic aircraft are preserved at airports and museums around the world. The JFK TWA Hotel has a Lockheed Constellation used a cocktail bar. Meanwhile, almost every Concorde built has been preserved at museums across Europe and North America. Now, aviatio ..read more

Airbus has been slowly bringing production of the A380 to a close. Today, things got one step closer as the manufacturer’s last A380 began its engine run and taxi tests, the last time this will ever happen for the Giant of the Skies.       While the Airbus A380 will likely remain in the skies for many years to come, the sad reality is that, unfortunately, the type is falling out of favor. While some carriers, such as Singapore Airlines, have stuck by their commitment to the kind, others, such as Lufthansa, show considerably less commitment to the giant.     ..read more

The manufacturer, which has a factory at Barnoldswick, Lancashire, took a “severe” hit from the pandemic as the crisis hammered the global aviation industry.       The group’s eye-watering loss for last year was worse than expected and compares with underlying pre-tax profits of £583 million in 2019.       On a statutory basis, Rolls reported pre-tax losses of £2.9 billion against losses of £891 million in 2019.         Rolls said there had been a “severe impact of Covid-19 pandemic on group performance and near-term outlook”, warning 2 ..read more

Raipur Airport has one unwelcome guest: a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 left in parking since 2015. The plane belongs to Bangladeshi carrier United Airways and landed in Raipur due to an engine failure in August 2015. However, since then, the airline has gone out of business and nobody has come back to claim the aircraft.       Long grounding The events started on 7th August 2015, when a United Airways (not to be confused with American carrier United Airlines) flight from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Muscat, Oman suffered an engine failure and diverted to nearby Raipur Airport with 173 passe ..read more

Boeing Co will pay a $6.6 million to U.S. regulators as part of a settlement over quality and safety-oversight lapses going back years, a setback that comes as Boeing wrestles with repairs to flawed 787 Dreamliner jets that could dwarf the cost of the federal penalty.     Boeing is beginning painstaking repairs and forensic inspections to fix structural integrity flaws embedded deep inside at least 88 parked 787s built over the last year or so, a third industry source said.             The inspections and retrofits could take weeks or even up to a month ..read more

Plane Forced To Land In Sudan After Aggressive CAT Attacks Pilot In Mid-Air And Hijacks The Cockpit!       A passenger plane was forced to return to an airport in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum after an angry and aggressive cat, which had somehow got into the cockpit, attacked the pilots shortly after takeoff. Wednesday’s flight of the Sudanese Tarco airline bound for Qatar’s capital, Doha, was proceeding in a totally routine manner – that is, until a most unlikely and unwelcome passenger caused the mid-air emergency.           Having departed from Kh ..read more